Amazon rolled out its newest software update for the Kindle Fire — version 6.2 — this evening. Initial reports indicate that it both de-roots your jailbroken device and removes access to the Android Market. But don't worry — the borking is reversible.

Here's a pro tip for mobile developers: before you submit your application to an app store, check to see what autocorrect does to your application's name. Just ask Dallas company Locai, this simple check could make or break your app.

It's not that Android users don't use their apps, they do: Nielsen says Android users spend about an hour a day on their phone with two-thirds of that time being spent apps. It's that they're all spending their time in the same apps (probably because most apps just suck).

Google just launched a new Android Market for Android 2.2+ users and added book and movie downloads to the Market. What's bigger news to me though, is that sticking true to Google's recent trend, Android Market looks a lot better.

Google's seen an impressive jump in downloads from its Android Market app store, with their mobile advertising sales director for Europe Ian Carrington revealing it was just a year ago that it was only one billion downloads, "and that first billion took two years to happen... the last billion took 60 days."

Noah Bordner is a veteran game animator who has worked with such companies as EA, Lukas Arts, and Bungie. His indie app gaming venture, Mika Mobile, has already found success in the Apple App Store. Bordner recently ported the popular RPG Battleheart over to Android. There, he found the experience to be a little trickier.

A problem that has plagued Android Market was that you didn't really know if an Android app would work with your Android phone. Google has rolled out a device compatibility check in the Android Market website to solve that.

Popular Android emulator developer "yongzh" has had all of his apps yanked from Android Market without warning, he told users today, signaling that Google's recent bans (started last month at the behest of Sega) are all but over.

For all the improvements the Android Market has made recently, it's still been a pain to find new and interesting apps - increasingly so, now that Google's app storefront has grown to 200,000 programs strong. Not anymore.

What's this? An AT&T Android device that doesn't shackle you to the official Android Market? The new Samsung Infuse 4G lets you flip the toggle to download any Android app from any market. That's great! But is it the future?

If there's anything the Japan quake has taught us, it's that disaster can strike at any moment. PDC's Disaster Alert app for Android can help you cope with this scary fact by giving you real-time alerts on the world's active hazards, including earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, storms and more.

In-app purchases for Android will finally be a reality next week. Developers get a head start on the fun and can start uploading their apps and setting prices now but can't publish them until the service is live.

N64oid, a Nintendo 64 emulator, will let you indulge your nostalgia wherever you go. Though othervideo game emulators for Android devices exist, nothing else can bring you this kind of 64-bit gaming goodness. $US6.